AV Video Multimedia Producer articles from June 2001

AV Video Multimedia Producer archives from June 2001

Spend Cycle.
June 1, 2001... Good or bad, cycles make the world go round. The position of the current economic cycle is what has everybody guessing, especially those of us in technologycentric businesses. Are we on the way up? Have we hit rock bottom? More important, how...

Cadillac DVD-ROM Puts Shoppers in Driver's Seat.
June 1, 2001... Using motion-control cameras and high-end computer graphics, Edgeworx, a New York City production company, has created a DVD-ROM that promotes Cadillacs new SUV, the Escalade. The disc, which contains a 3D interactive game and advertising, was...

Walk This Way.
June 1, 2001... Digital Metropolis designs ViaWest's virtual tour, securely Wendy St. Clair, director of marketing communications at ViaWest Internet Services in Denver, spends most of her day trying to coax corporate IT and Internet managers to take a...

Two-Way Street.
June 1, 2001... No DSL or cable modem? Connect with your remote animators via bi-directional satellite Several years ago in these pages I spoke about how to find talented animators online and how to art direct them via the Web. To make an arrangement like...

EDUCATION on the EDGE.
June 1, 2001... Illustration by Roy Scott Producers at corporations and schools are finding ways to keep content streaming effectively while minimizing the impact on other network operations At Streaming Media West in San Jose last December,...

Counterculture for the Corporate Soul.
June 1, 2001... When the World Trade Organization held its annual meeting in Seattle on November 30, 1999, protesters from around the world converged in the typically laid-back city. With agendas ranging from environmental protection to animal rights to...

The SHIPPING NEWS.
June 1, 2001... Some years, the NAB Convention in Las Vegas has a clear, overarching theme. A few years ago, it was NT products' strong debut in professional media production. Then it was the promise of high-definition video. Then the whole show was streaming,...

Shooting Big, Carrying Small.
June 1, 2001... News about high-definition cameras continued to garner attention, but news about smaller, more powerful cameras gave business-media producers much to cheer about. Sony's new DSR-250 camcorder features three 1/3-inch CCDs, a 12X zoom lens and...

3D LENS FOR THE XL1.
June 1, 2001... Starting in October, users of Canon's XL1 camcorder may have another reason to consider producing video in 3D. Although producing 3D video is hardly a new science, it generally requires multiple-camera shoots. Canon's new 3D lens for the XL1,...

XPRESS DV 2.0 ON A LAPTOP.
June 1, 2001... AVID Many videographers I've talked with in recent months have been respectfully leery of Avid's Xpress desktop editor. Great price and great idea, they say, but the tool seems to be little more than a whittled down version of Media...

DIGISUITE MAX.
June 1, 2001... MATROX Noteworthy news in nonlinear editing at NAB included Matrox's announcement of DigiSuite MAX. The three versions of the product differ in the compression schemes they use. Demonstrations at Matrox's booth showed how the company's...

Side Show.
June 1, 2001... Expanded feature sets of cornerstone graphics tools were shown, as expected, to great effect in booths across the exhibit hall. I found equally valuable news on the peripheries. A number of manufacturers proudly showcased third-party...

COLOR THEORY TOOLFARM/THEORY LLC.
June 1, 2001... Artists and designers have long used the principles of complementary color theory to create visually appealing work. Warhol's later silk-screen portraits of Marilyn Monroe, for example, are some of the more unusual yet exacting applications of...

Larger than Life.
June 1, 2001... It was a banner year for large-venue displays, plasma monitors, progressive-scan projectors and other presentation devices. Increasingly, multimedia producers are realizing that their latest whiz-bang production techniques are wasted if the...

Group Encounters.
June 1, 2001... Now that streaming is commonplace and generally plat form-independent, producers can deliver content nearly anywhere. A similar scene is being set within the production facility. Producers who want to work as a group have it better than ever....

Meeting the Digital Challenge.
June 1, 2001... Nobody at NAB believed that the government-mandated switch to DTV broadcasting was going to proceed on schedule, and few had anything resembling a workable business plan for streaming media. Despite that, attendees were in a decidedly digital...

An All-Digital Landscape?
June 1, 2001... As usual, this year's NAB was not an outwardly audio-centric affair. It didn't help that the majority of audio vendors attending were once again exiled to the Las Vegas Convention Center and seemingly scattered among radio and...

DVD Comes on Strong.
June 1, 2001... Refined toolsets and new products take DVD production to the next level. Only a few years ago, DVD was much discussed, but not proven. Now, professional A/V and multimedia producers are gravitating to the high-resolution digital play car...

Express Yourself.
June 1, 2001... Adobe After Effects 5.0 Summary: Adobe bolsters its AE desktop compositing software with JavaScript expressions Target Users: Animators, 3D artists, multimedia developers Platforms: Windows 98/2000/ME: Mac OS 9.0.4 or later ...

Form over Function.
June 1, 2001... CTX International's PV710MDV LCD Monitor Summary: CTX's LCD display has a small footprint and low radiation levels; too bad the picture isn't nearly as good as that of a cheaper CRT Target Users: Presentation professionals ...

Hunk o' Burning Love.
June 1, 2001... Discmatic's DVDiamond 1000 Summary: Discmatic's DVDiamond duplicator isn't cheap, but it's a solid, straightforward performer Target Users: Post houses and duplication facilities Chances are, if you author DVDs, some clients will...

Getting with the Program.
June 1, 2001... Caligari's trueSpace 5 Summary: Caligari delivers a powerful, easy-to-use upgrade to its 3D-modeling and animation software Target Users: Animators, 3D artists, graphic designers, Web designers, multimedia developers Platforms:...

Making Changes in Midstream.
June 1, 2001... Like wine, technology improves with age. Take streaming, for example. The first time I heard anything streamed--let's not forget that audio delivery is where streaming really broke ground--was a news broadcast on a RealAudio player from what...